Cooling-tower.



UNITED sTAfir sPA'rEnT OFFICE.

JDSEPH WILLIAM BECK. OF CINCINNATI OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN C. I i METZGER. Q1? CINCINNATI, OHIO.

v COOLING-T\VER..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. Joszarn W. B i-:cic, a citizen of the United Stntcs. residing at Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filedApril 1S, 1906. Serial No. 312.4672.

Cincinnati. in the county of Hamilton und'f State of Ohio; have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooling-Towers; and I do hereby declare the follpwing to bea full. clear, and exact description of the invention, such will enable others skilled in the art to which it uppertuius to make and use the some! i This invention relates to improvements in cooling towers, and is more particularly dew I signed .for cooling water.

, provision of a tower of the character men- The object of the present invention isthe tioned, whereby water I may he speedily cooled and reduced to a low tennxn'uture with the highest degree of economy. and which tower will-occupy but minimum space.

A further object sought to be accoinplished is the provision of acooling tower designed to be operated absolutely indepenh ently of atmospheric conditions. thus enahlmgrthe towoto be employed in various localities regardless of the temperature.and

wedding a tower designed for use as cf-.

fcctually withinn building as at the exterior thereof.

The invention also seeks to provide n cooling tower wherein a cooling agent under compression is employed, mud in which is embodied ellioicnt means for the most cffectual utilization of the cooling: agent with a proportionately small expenditure of fuel in handling the water.

The invention further aims to provids, a self-contained tower the construction of which is such as to effectually prevent splashing of the water from the tower in its transit therethrough.

\Vith these general objects in vicw.. and.

otherswhich will appear asthe nature of the improvements is better understood, the

invention consists substantially in the novelconstructiou. coml'iination and arrangement of parts. ilh' will be hereinafter fully de' scribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings. and pointed out in the appended claims. While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what is believed to be a pr=fernble embodiment thereof. it

obvious that the some is susceptible of vari- Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

ous changes in the form. proporlionQand minor details of construction. and tlu-r1;:bt

is accordingly reserved to modify or m;- the invention as falls within the rrl'lll'll and scope thereof.

ln the drawingsl-igure 1 is. a i'ti rel transverse scrtional vie of a cooling: love!" constructed in accordance with and embody ing'the hereinwiewribcd invention. Fig. L'is a top plan view of one of the distributing puns. Fig. is a similar-view of one of the collecting puns. Fig. l is also n top plan view of the supporting base. 7 Referring in detail to the drawings. the numeral 1 designates the supporting base of the herein-described tower. 5 id lHlnQ being preferably of cast-irolu and including :i series of radiolywxtcnding supporting foot :2. whereby the base will be firmly held in position. The base 1 is provided at its ontrnl portion with. a hub 3, provided with an angular pas age 4, which latter t-Xtends from one side of the hub It and terminates at the center of the latter and at the top thereof. Threaded into the upper cnd of the passage is a vertirall v-extcnding pipe 5, which pipe isdcsig i'ied to convey the cooling agent to be hi "latte referred h und to supply the pipe 5 with said cooling agent a pipe may be connected with (be lower end of the passage 4 to convey the cooling agent from a suitable soilrcc. Arranged zit spat-ed intervals along the pipe 5 is a plurality of distributing .pnns t3, and arranged in alternate relation with the distributing pans (3 is a plurality of collecting pans 7. The distributm5; and collecting panstl and i may be formed of sheet iron or copper, the distributing; pans being of convex shape and having a multiplicity of perforations 8 formed therein so that the water passing from the distributing pans may be broken up into a large number of small jets, and thereby be more susceptible to the action of the cooling agent. The collecting pans are of concave shape; said pans being impcrforzitc, but formed at the central ortion thereof is an annular series of openings 9, whereby the water collected by said pans will be concentrated at the central por tion thereof and discharged through the openings 9 upon the central portions of the distributing pans below. Each of the'distributing pa'ns G is rovirledwith a comparatively high peripiiernl flange it), the upner edges of said flanges extending it a pans, and it will thus he wen that eaeh of I the collecting pans has a t'ulisitlet'alile ea therein. 7

flanges extend upwardly to a point ln-yond :1. I. lhe eolleeting lntlth i illtfliulMlbL )HtH'ltlCtl with peripheral flanges H, wh ch the adjaeent lower edge or periphery otthe i will also thus he Ht'tlt that. the flanges uf the t'olleetitig pants I overlap and pro ect beyond the distributing pans, whereln a eilintined space is provided. 1

hetween eaeh ot' the eulleeting pans and the 1 reason of thi.-; tttllmlt'll llml the water in distrihntingpan to the CUllL'CilHg pan iininei diately beneath. will be. eontined 'within the-5 limits oi" the tower and splaahing of the water front the panhwill he eti'eetnally prerented. "lhe distributing pans (3 are al zu provided with dowihrardly extendiugp'uard flanges lt),.aiid' these flanges wih prevent the water. as it di$eharges from said pans, flowing. ever the edges thereof and splashing. The lliillglb' i and it til the disttihutin and eulleeiim )ztlH are also snitahlv i-onneeted. as by bolts 1:2, or their equivalent,

to rertieal standard; 12}. which standards may he formed of angle or T-ii'nn. and thus the edges of the respert re pans are lirinly -Mlppnltml. as well as providing a )dlf'L'UH' pan; (3.

lair-ed nlruetnre. t

The pipe 5, which conveys the cooling agent, in the pre ent inatanee airunder emupression. pasaes upwardly through the euniion 1-!: supports the di trihuting and eol- 2 lee-ting pain, while the alternate seetinns 1?) are perhn'ated. as at H3, for discharging the couling agent into the spaces between t'ttch of the collecting paint 7 and the. diatriljuting The exterior of each of the. supportinp Sillll llS I4 is St'l'tW threaded. and

mounted illm't'tlll are two sets of loek nuts.

ti and 18. the. loelt inns li' enihraring the upper and lower Sltlth oi the tllfill'lllttlllig pans (3. while Ihe nuts 1H i-nihraee the upper .terh, of the distributing and (Oilttllllg pans, and it will he noted that .said pipe isfornied f of 1'. series of .-.eetions. (lithe latter a porand lower sides of the roller-ting pain 7.;

thus firmly eanneeting said-pans .u the pipe 5. iiaeh of the diseharg'i- Hvlinltfi l5 i.-' alm mderisirly serew-ttireaded for a portion of it." length. the lower ends til mid-wet ions-heiug threaded into a valve i'liainla-r 1? whieh latter in turn is threaded upon the upper -end of the. supporting si-etions H. and eaeh of said valte. chambers llltl(l) forms a i-oiipling for innierting the diwharge .-ee- E tions with -ilie supporting sei tioih- LL; nae-h of the 'alve, ehanihers it) is provided i int'ase the herein-described eooler so that.

with an internal rarity for the reception of the air diseharged fi'mn the perforations and not. pernnlteddn heeonie deposited upon 16, and the upper end of aeh 0 said ehain hers is also prorided with a flared mouth ll through which the milling agent diseharges may" he varied in size in aee rdanre with the volume of air which is required for cooli112, the wait-r. V

' distributing pan immediately thereahnre.

The valve ehanihers if and their reapertire valves 21' (Uliriiltl't miies oi rtozaa'its. 11 transit through the tower. and lrntn one= sheet or film of inverted eoniial liap "Hy reason of thi the. air will he projeeted apt-ass the path of the water a1; the ltltlt'i'ii' drops from the distributing pan ti, and confie iltetiil)". the water being divided into a series of line iets ur streams, the water will he eti'eetuall v eueled, the nnnntwstreams heing more susreptihle to the eooling eti'et-t' 'ofl the air. and thus etieetua ly living freedni the heat units therein. The upper ends of.

the, discharge .seeiioi's l5 and the lower ends of the supportingsections H are i-eaneeted by eoupling sleeves 23. V

At. the lower end of the tower is arranged a reservoir 24, which latter is supported .npon the pipe. 5 by rueanx of lock nuts -15, and mid reservoir is aim connected to the standards 13. The water. therefore. after being cooled in it U'ztlinit through the tower will he eollei-fed in the reservoir2-l from which it may pass by a discharge pipe 20 t0 the point of use. vati-d to a sutlicientheight. the water will readily discharge through the pipe it; b) gavity, huti if it! a plane below the pointof use a pump may l\e;t:onneeted to the reservoir for drawing the euoled water therefrom,

A water supply pipe 37 may he supported" If the tower he ele on one uf the feet :2 of the'base hlhe upper to t-onnt-ei the l)zi :-':l}.!t twith the sutltee ot' the. cooling agent. and the pipe L? with the snaree t'roin whieli the heated watt-r i takento he led to the tower.

t nder some rend tions it is INttSStU) to the e\';u.orated' moisture will he (alli'ied till.

35 the initial cooling under the influence of the f air' is efiiccted.

969,743 I H BL machinery. This especially true when the cooler is used in a room with machinery, and to the accomplishment of this end jacket 29 is employed, 'lhis jacket is preferably made in sections and extends as high as the top distributing pan 6, and it will thus be seenthat the moisture passing between the distributing and collecting pans will be held within the confincsof the jacket. The latter may be made of any desired niatcrial, and its sectional construction will render the same to be readily remoi'ed should occasion require. In conjunction with the jacket 2.9 a hood 30 is arranged cooler, said hood overlapping the upper end A h. Mm...

ofthe jacket and being provided with an uptake 31 whereby the moisture may. bei

conveyed from the jacket. This uptake may charged to some other suitable point; v In the operation of the herein-described tower the heated waterwill discharge from the nozzle 28 upon the upper distributing pan 6. By reason of the convexity of this pain the water will readily flow over the surnozzles, by the conditions just referred to, and by simply'auljusting the rain-s 2; in relation to the chambers I!) the volume. of

the dischurgeiuay be readily changed to suit the conditions.

use in cooling water. it is perfectly obvious that the same may be employed for cooling other liquids, and the invention is therefore not restricted to employment with water alone.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as nenzand desired to be secured by Letters Patent, isi above the some to molose the top of the-"" l. A cooling tower of the class described, comprising a plurality of distributing pans. a plurality of collecting pans associated therewithamlaltrrnatrly arranged with respect to the distributing pans, whereby each be connected with the atmosphere. .-()1-'Ll25 atel'y above, and means arranged intcrmcdiface thereof, and accumulate within said pan,whenoe it discharges through the perforations 8 upon the collecting pan 1 inunedh ately below In passing from the distributing pan 6 to the collect ng pan 7 the minute streams of water encounter the film or sheet of hex-impressed airyas the latter discharges from the a r nozzle immediately above the collecting pan, and consequently the concave shape of the latter causes the water to flow down to the central portion of the pan, and at this point the water passes through the openings J to the central por tion of the distributing pan 6 beneath said collecting pan. ilcre the water is again broken up into a multiplicity of small streams, dropping from the distributing pan whicn it has encountered. and falling to the collecting pan below. The water is a second time acted upon by the compres ed air in its transit from the second distributing pan to the secondcollecting pan. and this opera- 7 tion continues through the entire height of the structure from the. top to the bottom. the

number of the distributing and collecting pans being determined in accordance with the volume of water which it is desired to cool. and the temperature to which it is deate the edges of the distributing: and t'ullectiug pans for subjecting the drip in the transit of the liquid through the tower to the action of a cooling agcut projected undc! pressure ii an inverted conical sheet across the path of the drip.

it A coolin Y tower of the class described comprising a plurality of distributing pairs. a plurality of collecting pans associated therewith and alternately arranged with respect to the dis ibuting pans whereby each of the collecting pans is adapted to receive the drip from the distributing pun innnediately above, each of the distributing and colleciing puns having peripheral flanges, the. flanges of the collecting pans overlapping the distrilmling pans to prevent splashing of the water therefrom, and means for subjecting the drip in the transit.- of the liquid through the tower to the action of a cooling lgcnt. I

3. A cording tower of the class described. comprising a'plurality of distrlbul'in g pans. a plurality of collecting pans associated therewith and alternately arranged with respect to thc dist ribuiing: puns. whereby each f the collecting puns is adapt d to receive the drip from the dlstributin; pan lllfltlt" diutcly abore. a pi w passing through the distributing and col ectlng pans {or conveying a cooling agent and nozzles carried by said pipe and arranged in the spaces between each of tin collecting pans and the distributing pan thcreaborefor directing the cooling agent across the path of the drip in the transit of the liquid through the tower, each of said nozzles comprising a valve chamber, and a valve adj stable relatively thereto.

4. A cooling tower of the class described, comprising a plii"ality of convex distributsired to reduce the water. 'Furtherr; ire, the .ing pans, a plurality of concave collecting i i x l l pans associated therewith and alternately aslhe volume issuing from the respective arranged with respect to the distributing 70 While the tower has been d'ii crzbcd for V v -tll'lzlllgltl with respectto the distributing adapted to l'l puns, whereby :11 of the collecting, ans is nduptcd to receiye the drip from he. dis; trihutiug: pint innnediately above, each of; the distri ling- Lilli collecting punsheing provided Willi flanges. lhetlungescf tliecollooting puns. overlapping the distributing puns to. prevent splashing of the liquid from tlw puns. :1 pipe passing! through the disl trihuting and collecting puns for conveying :1 cooling: age-no and nozzle; curried by said pipe and arranged in the spaces between Qz'icll of therollecting pans and the distributing pun th-grcurmve for directing the cooling agent across the pal'lrof the drip in the transit of the liquid through the tower.

:3. cooling'tcu'er oi. the class described, comprising a plurality of convex distrilrut lug pans :r plurality of concave collecting puns HnSGCltli'Ed therewith and valternately puns. whereby each of the wllccting pane is "e the Ll'i'lj) from the dis- L'Jhuliug pun nmncdintely above, each of (he distributing and collecting pans being a provided will. flanges the flanges of. the col-- lcciing puns or erlupg'ling the distributing puns l'u 've-want splushli-ig of the liquid from the pans, a pipe passing; through thedislriliutl and collecting puns for conveying :2 coolinjz agent. and nozzles curried by said pipv and zu'runggml in the spaces between cavh of llifi fftllltlflll'lg pans and the dietribuh ing pun tlu rmhovc for directing the cooling, agent, EHIORI the. path of the drip in the ll'ilfhll of the. liquid through the lower. each of said nozzle: romprisiing a valve chamber, :mda valve udjuslublc relatively thereto.

6. A cooling tower of the class described, coiuprisingu sup tvortiug hose, a pipe .connested thereto and "-n'ojecting upwardly therefrom for ionveyng a cooling .agcnt. i .enid pipe being formed of a plurality of l supporting and discharging sections, a plui rulity of collecting, and dist-il'mt-ing pans earricd by the supporting sections of said pipe and alternately arrungcd relatively to each other, whereby the collecting pans are adapted to l'l'COlYCE the drip from the distributin panspand neans es'sociatcd with the dieciarging sections of 5&11'1 pipe to direct the, cooling agent the-terrain acrossthe tower. o

7. A cooling tower of the class described, comprising a supporting base, pipe connected thereto and projecting upwardly therefrom for conveying a cooling agent, said p pe being formed of a plurality of supponing and discharging sections, a, plu rality .cf collecting and distributing puns carried-by the supporting sections of said the drip in the transit of the liquid through i pipe and alternately arranged relatively to 1 each other. whereby the collecting pans are adapted to receive the drip from the distributing pans, means associated wit-h the discharging sections of said pipe to direct the cooling agent therefrom across the drip m the transit of the liquid through the tower, and a reservoir arranged at the bottom of the tower for receiving the cooled liquid from the bottom collecting pan. 8. A cooling tower of the class described, comprising a supporting base, a pipe (1011-. nectcd thereto and projecting upwardly there-from for conveying a cooling agent, said pipe being formed of a plurality of supporting and discharging sections, a plurality'of collecting and distributing panscz rried by the supporting sections of said pipe and alternutelyarranged relatively to earn other whereby the collecting pans are adapted to receive thedrip from the disr trihuting pans. means associated with the discl-iarging sections of said pipe to direct. the cooling agent therefrom across the drip in the transit of the liquid through t-he'tower, and a pipe curried by said base andv extending oyerthe top of the tower for discharging the liquid to be cooled into the towerj In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

. in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH WlLLIAlii BECK. "\Vitncsses: CHARLES N'unnmc, Vv'ILLIAn Numznwu; 

